On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:45:09PM +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
just a question. Are the RHEL changes included in rawhide packages or are they going to be sent to upstream ?
The answer is context-dependent. Because RHEL doesn't update package versions, patches may not even apply to mainstream; it is not that unusual that fixes to RHEL packages are backports or re-implementations of fixes that are in upstream packages.
It's official Red Hat policy that patches should be sent upstream if they are appropriate to be sent upstream. We sometimes fail (sometimes we want to test a patch before sending it and then it falls off the radar, sometimes we don't realize that upstream would want a patch, etc.) Customization patches often just aren't appropriate for upstream, so those tend to live forever in RPMs. We need a lot fewer of those than we used to, though.
Syncing to rawhide on the way upstream is generally going to be developer's discretion based on factors like what testing they are looking for when, upstream schedules, etc.
michaelkjohnson
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